{"id":7499,"date":"2009-09-18T01:36:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T01:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/cheap-hotel-near-unter-den-linden-berlin-germany\/"},"modified":"2009-09-18T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T01:36:29","slug":"lime-trees-of-unter-den-linden-boulevard-berlin-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/?p=7499","title":{"rendered":"Who planted the lime trees on Unter den Linden boulevard ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Unter_den_Linden_Berlin_Germany-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9622\" title=\"Unter_den_Linden_Berlin_Germany\" src=\"http:\/\/abcplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Unter_den_Linden_Berlin_Germany-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Unter_den_Linden_Berlin_Germany\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>A boulevard of linden trees was planted from 1647 extending from the electoral palace to the gates of the city by <strong>Friedrich Wilhelm, popularly known as the &#8220;Great Elector&#8221;<\/strong> (<em>Der Gro\u00dfe Kurf\u00fcrst<\/em>), who wanted to beautify the route from his castle to his hunting park, the Tiergarten. By the 19th century, as Berlin grew and expanded to the west, <strong>Unter den Linden became the best-known and grandest street in Berlin<\/strong>. During the last days of World War II most of the linden trees (lime trees in British English) were destroyed or cut down for firewood. The trees were replanted in the 1950s. Unter den Linden is at the heart of the historic section of Berlin dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. Running east\u2013west from the Brandenburg Gate to the former site of the imperial palace (Berliner Stadtschloss), it connects Pariser Platz and Bebelplatz, crossing the Schlossbr\u00fccke (palace bridge), the Lustgarten and Museum Island. Buildings along the street include (from west to east) the <strong>Hotel Adlon<\/strong>, the <strong>Russian Embassy<\/strong>, the <strong>Berlin State Library<\/strong>, the <strong>Berlin State Opera<\/strong>, <strong>Humboldt University<\/strong>, <strong>Cathedral of St. Hedwig at Bebelplatz<\/strong>, the <strong>Kronprinzenpalais<\/strong>, the <strong>Neue Wache<\/strong> war memorial, the <strong>Zeughaus Berlin<\/strong> (old armory; now houses the German Historical Museum (DHM)), the <strong>Alte Kommandantur<\/strong> and the <strong>Berliner Dom<\/strong>. Well-known statues of <strong>Frederick the Great<\/strong>, <strong>Alexander von Humboldt<\/strong>, <strong>Wilhelm von Humboldt<\/strong> and several Prussian generals also adorn the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A boulevard of linden trees was planted from 1647 extending from the electoral palace to the gates of the city by Friedrich Wilhelm, popularly known as the &#8220;Great Elector&#8221; (Der Gro\u00dfe Kurf\u00fcrst), who wanted to beautify the route from his castle to his hunting park, the Tiergarten. By the 19th century, as Berlin grew and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[489,19],"tags":[308,35,499],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boulevards","category-cities","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-unter-den-linden","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}